It was at an arthouse cinema overrun with hipsters and of course the crowd was just as entertaining as the movie, five minutes in girl behind me stands up and says to her male friend "no way am i watching a fucking reading movie" i guess she left her reading hipster glasses with lenses at home, and another girl ran out during the squid scene never to return.

Oldboy ten years on and still finishing with less of an audience then when it started.

Oh if I only had a dollar for every time I've seen that sad ass excuse to avoid foreign films. I wonder if Americans are that incapable of reading comprehension. And part of me is scared to learn the answer to the query.

But then I'm biased, more than half of my DVD collection is in Chinese, Korean, or any other number of languages.

@manglr it ain't just Americans, and i'm a big fan of foreign language movies, it's a pity people are put off by subtitles, their loss i guess

@Flabyo, the mainstream multi screen cinema's in ireland have signs up at the ticket kiosk and around the lobby saying when a movie is subtitled, guess the arthouse cinema's need to start doing the same

and on another note I've watched 'The Raid' subtitled and dubbed, i don't recall the subtitled script having the word fuck in every sentence.

I much prefer watching subtitled, because you get the original intonation. Love District 13 (Good throwaway action). Once tried to watch the dubbed version. Lets just say they didn't have much money left for the dubbing voice actors.

On that subject there was an interesting article on this at the BBC the other day.

Are we really going to have a sub versus dub thing right now? I don't know from Oldboy, but I do know from Crouching Tiger that both options are pretty great (helps that several of the original cast did their own English dubbing). But reading at the same time as trying to catch the action sometimes wrecks my understanding of both. Sometimes the dub sucks...sometimes Shinichiro Watanabe says the American cast did a better job on Cowboy Bebop than the Japanese....

I think as far as animations go, I'm a lot more open to dubs. The Miyazaki films are almost always excellently done in English, as was Steamboy. The Norwegian version of The Little Mermaid is actually considered by many to be the best version there is of it. Mainly thanks to Sissel, who did the voice of Ariel.

My issue is more people that refuse to watch a subbed movie because they have to 'read'...or better yet refuse to consider a film from another country for the same reason. The close mindedness of that attitude just kills me. (But personally, I prefer subs because I enjoy listening to the rhythm of the original language - although 3D movies and animated movies can be exceptions to that sentiment.)

To The Wonder alternates between subtitles. When necessary and when not for an English speaking audience.

In short, it's beautiful.

I don't think it's about love, directly; I think it's about faith and finding a land that's fruitful.

As with all Malik's recent films, it's also about place, about place and time, about one's place and finding peace through either a softness of life or an abundance of life and knowing which makes you your best when it brings you an equilibrium of all the things you are.

But mainly faith, how difficult it can be, and how difficult it can be having faith in love.